"The 2028 Republican primary is apt to look less like a political contest than Muhammad announcing who’ll succeed him as prophet." | Nick Catoggio in Boiling Frogs
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/vance-iran-war-2028-hawley-tucker-carlson/
"In short, Democrats picked a guy who fit what they saw as the Republican suit but sang like a conventional Democrat—and thought that Republican or Republican-leaning independents would fall for it." | Jonah Goldberg
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/james-talarico-democrats-tokenism/
"It’s bizarre how Trump has inherited this snipe hunt that’s been going on for a half century of finding the moderate ayatollahs that can work with America. It’s never happened before. Why would it happen now?” | Jonah Goldberg on CNN's The Arena
"The U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan looms large for members of Congress who served." | Charles Hilu
https://thedispatch.com/article/congress-iraq-afghanistan-veterans-iran-war/
"You could do a lot worse than Markwayne Mullin." | Michael Warren on CNN This Morning
“Justice Democrats have flipped zero [seats]. I’m not misreading. Zero,” Third Way president Jonathan Cowan said. | David M. Drucker
https://thedispatch.com/article/democrats-2028-third-way-centrists-progressives/
"Negative partisanship is the third-strongest force in American politics, coming in behind only inertia and stupidity." | Kevin D. Williamson
https://thedispatch.com/article/texas-talarico-crockett-senate-red-blue/
"It was just a matter of when and not if she would be fired." | Michael Warren discusses the firing of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on CNN This Morning
"Since Donald Trump launched Operation Epic Fury last week, one thing has been clear: The most MAGA of MAGA media are not behind the president." | Michael Warren
https://thedispatch.com/article/donald-trump-maga-steve-bannon-iran-war/
A Better Way to Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Oliver Jia in TheNext250
https://thedispatch.com/next-250/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-united-states-history/
President Trump fires DHS Secretary Kristi Noem | Jonah Goldberg discusses on CNN's The Arena
Nepal’s First Elections Since Last Year’s Youth Uprising | Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/nepals-first-elections-since-last-years-youth-uprising/
"Reelecting a figure as sinister as Trump after he proved on January 6 what he was capable of amounted to a quasi-formal renunciation of moral responsibility by the electorate." | Nick Catoggio in Boiling Frogs
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/iran-war-nation-building-kurds/
Economic Dynamism: U.S. vs EU | Kevin D. Williamson on The Dispatch Podcast
“Civil wars don’t stay contained within their borders. They spill over.” | Ken Pollack on The Remnant Podcast
"Trump is waging a war of regime collapse. In that, he may be successful, should the war kill enough of the senior leadership and the military." | Paul D. Miller
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-foreign-policy-iran-war-destruction/
DISPATCH DEBATE - Trump’s Iran War Matches the Founders’ Constitutional Vision: They gave the executive branch wide latitude on national security for a reason | Michael Lucchese 🔓
https://thedispatch.com/debates/iran-war-trump-constitution-operation-epic-fury/
DISPATCH DEBATE: Why Donald Trump’s Iran War Is Unconstitutional: The Founders were clear that Congress decides when to go to war | Ilya Somin 🔓
https://thedispatch.com/debates/donald-trump-iran-war-constitution-congress/
"His predecessors talked tough about the Islamic Republic, but Trump has done things an ardent hawk would only dream of." | Reuel Marc Gerecht
https://thedispatch.com/article/iran-trump-supreme-council-leadership/
“A lot of these people are basically the entertainment wing of MAGA.” | Jonah Goldberg discusses the growing divide within the MAGA movement over Trump’s war with Iran on The Lead with Jake Tapper
What Are the Goals of the Iran Campaign? Plus: Ecuador’s military conducts U.S.-assisted anti-cartel raids, Russian and Iranian ships are sunk, & the burger-chain CEO social media wars have begun | Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/what-are-the-goals-of-the-iran-campaign/
"Megyn Kelly, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, and countless others made a Faustian bargain with Trump and Trumpism, thinking they could manage the golem." | Jonah Goldberg in G-File
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/republicans-maga-trump-cautionary-tale/
“To borrow the old line about Brazil: Texas is the blue state of the future, and it always will be.” | Nick Catoggio
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/cornyn-paxton-talarico-texas-senate-primaries/
Fun Fact: Elaine Godfrey is Menards' biggest fan | The Dispatch Podcast
The Tariff Ruling Is About a Lot More Than Tariffs (And It’s Very Good): It’s a resounding victory for the rule of law and our system of government | Scott Lincicome in Capitolism
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/capitolism/tariff-ruling-supreme-court-rule-of-law/
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Will Khamenei’s Death Mark the End of the Revolution? | Charlotte Lawson
https://thedispatch.com/article/khamenei-death-iran-strikes-revolution/?utm_source=U1v2W-3x4Y5-z6A7b-8C9D0&utm_campaign=abd38fbc-e6e6-4864-86e8-2a25bba7a9bc&utm_medium=copy_link
"Everything unfolding in and above Iran depends on the consequences, intended and unintended, of one man’s unilateral decision to launch a war. In short, we’re all on blowback watch." | Jonah Goldberg
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-iran-strategy-blowback/
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The Texas Primaries | Plus: Kristi Noem testifies, more Ukraine talks, and Iceland is no longer suing Iceland | Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/the-texas-primaries/
